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2016 ZOO/WILD Activity Report Zoo Outreach Organization Trust Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society 2016 Activity Report Augmenting stakeholder awareness on Asian elephant conservation in Human Elephant Conflict areas of Tamil Nadu, India Goal and objectives: The goal The training was inaugurated is to ensure long-term survival by V. Ganesan, IFS, Chief of elephant populations by Conservator of Forests & minimizing Human Elephant Field Director, Anamalai Conflict for the peaceful Tiger Reserve, Coimbatore in survival of both elephant and the presence of V. Subbiah, human being. The objective of District Forest Officer & the project is to conduct two Deputy Director, ATR and A. capacity building training for Periasamy, IFS, District Forest forest frontline staff such as Officer, Tirupur. Followed by anti-poaching watchers, anti- the training, sensitization depredation squad, watchers, programme for 30 journalists guards and foresters. In was arranged on 22 October addition, to conduct two 2016 at the same venue that sensitization programmes for was inaugurated by both journalists so as to reach out Chief Conservator of forests to the public through various and District Forest Officer, media that will bring attitudinal ATR, Coimbatore. The second change and positivity among senisitizatoin programme for the people. The attitudinal journalists was held on 21 change, in the long run will February 2017 at Mathigiri help local community to Forest Training Centre, Hosur. harmoniously with elephants. About 20 journalists were participated. Activities: The first capacity building for forest staff was Donor: US Fish and Wildlife conducted at Hosur from Service, USA 28-29 September 2016 at Forest Training Centre, Mathigiri. A total number of 40 staff including anti- poaching watchers, guards, foresters, forest range officers and persons from non- governmental organisations participated. The training was inaugurated by Ashish Kumar, Srivastava, IFS, Conservator of Forests, Dharmapuri Circle in the presence of E. Rajendran, District Forest Officer, Hosur. The second capacity building training was held at Forest Training Centre, Attakatty, Anamalai Tiger Reserve from 20 & 21 October 2016, 35 forest staff in the capacity of anti-poaching watchers, guards, foresters and range officer attended the training. Getting along with Elephants workshop at Nepal A three-day educator skills regions has been suggested training workshop on Human and it is under planning stage. Elephant Coexistence HECx was facilitated by B.A. Daniel, The training module has Zoo Outreach Organization assessment tools to know along with resource persons the impact of training on Heidi Riddle, USA and Naresh individual participants, and Subedi, NTNC, from 3-6 it is measured through November 2016 in Bardiya content survey that tells the National Park, Nepal. knowledge that the participant gained after the workshop. As The workshop was coordinated per this assessment method and organized by the National the difference before and after Trust for Nature Conservation the workshop ranged from 9 NTNC in collaboration with to 90%. The group average Taru Women Upliftment Centre score about the subject before TWUC, Gulariya, Bardiya and the workshop was 38.98% Bardiya National Park with and after the workshop was the financial support of Asian 82.35%. Thanks to Asian Elephant Support AES. TWUC Elephant Fund for their in consultation with NTNC, timely financial assistance. selected the the participants Complete report can be read and the group had a mix of from http://www.zoosprint. the Nepalese participants org/ZooPrintMagazine/2016/ such as village heads, village December/4-6.pdf council members, teachers, Nepal Armed Forces that Donor: Asian Elephant deal with inter border wildlife Support, USA issues, members from NGO, teachers, volunteers and forest personnel. The Park Director Mr. Ramesh Thapa provided full support through out planning and implementing stages of the program. TWUC will be doing a follow up of the training and similar programs for other Fostering Human Elephant Coexistence (HECx)awareness in Erode, Tamil Nadu, India Objective: To reach out school teachers and school children who lives in or nearby Northern Western Ghats (both Sathyamangalam and Erode forest divisions) in Erode District human elephant conflict villages and teach them about safety education on human elephant coexistence through teachers training and school awareness programmes for school children in order to save their lives and live harmoniously with elephants. Activities: Organizing a 2-days teacher training workshop and twenty-five (25) school awareness programmes. Progress: It is recently funded project and a pre visit was made to Erode to meet the District Eco Club coordinator who is the local coordinator of the project. Discussed at length the planning of the programmes. Donor: International Elephant Foundation, USA Capacity building for frontline forest personnel for the mitigation of Human animal conflict in Tamil Nadu, India This is a US Fish and Wildlife Service funded project in progress planned in collaboration with the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, Society for Wildlife Interface and Forestry Training (SWIFT), Tamil Nadu Forest Academy TNFA, and Tamil Nadu Forestry Training College TNFTC. The ongoing project is to provide field oriented capacity building training programmes for the frontline forest staff from four tiger and four elephant reserves in Tamil Nadu, where human animal conflict is high. The project aims to address Human animal conflict issues, to improve protection of tiger and elephant and its habitats, to form a network of frontline staff who will observe and collect data accurately, monitor and report about the various conservation issues occur in the reserves and to create tailor made training program for Tamil Nadu state forest frontline staff. As part of the project it has been planned to conduct three training programs for about 130 frontline staff who are involved in monitoring and collecting data. B.A. Daniel, PI, in consultation with TNFTC and a team of resource persons for the training program designed the syllabus and a manual for the training. All required preparations for the training and the materials has been arranged and training is scheduled to organise during July 2017. Donor: US Fish and Wildlife Service, USA Project Kazhiru (Elephant): Targeting to achieve zero mortality in HEC areas in partnership with Tamil Nadu Forest department. Objective : To educate stakeholders to modify livelihood / lifestyle methods that are incompatible in HEC areas and to educate local bodies in developing safety protocols in conflict areas; To plan and organize mass awareness programmes for the community in HECx in conflict prone areas of Coimbatore forest range. Activities: A one-day training programme will be conducted for the district administration officers, village panchayat heads and ward members in two forest ranges of Coimbatore Forest Division namely Boluvampatti and Periyanaicken Palayam forest range. In order to sensitizing the community, school teachers and students about human elephant conflict and promote human elephant coexistence, several short awareness programmes will be conducted. Progress: Meeting with district level forest personnel were held several times. The programme will take off soon. Donor: US Fish and Wildlife Service, USA Sea cucumbers - healthy exotic delicacies or vital ocean cleaners? India has over 200 species of these fascinating == creatures and many of them have high commercial value in the East- and Southeast Asian food market. This project collects evidence to find the right balance between trade and conservation of these unconventional beauties. This project intends to tie the policymakers and communities together to inform policy on livelihood dependence, commercial pressure, illegal trade and most importantly to provide evidence to decision makers to support the listing or delisting of these highly threatened and commercially valuable species in the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. The anticipated outcomes from the one-year project are to provide unbiased information on dependence, need, alternatives, a baseline for thorough studies, and to develop viable conservation and use strategies for highly threatened and commercially important marine species in India. Activities undertaken: Literature studies, communication/meetings with experts and three field trips including community interactions (Rameswaram, In addition, the communities of target species, threats Sindhudurg, Cochin) were from Rameswaram are highly and trends in the wild. Sea undertaken to understand emotional and strongly against cucumber populations were existing practices of the ban on sea cucumber recorded from two of the communities, their need (if any) trade. This makes it slightly locations during the field trips. for commercial exploitation challenging to conduct Species Holothuria atra and of sea cucumbers. Out of the community interactions Holothuria leucospilota were three locations, communities regarding the trade of sea found in Rameswaram and residing in one location cucumbers. The local fisherfolk Sindhudurg respectively. A (Rameswaram) are the only of Sindhudurg and Cochin do few individuals of the highly ones known to illegally exploit not have any commercial commercial target species of sea cucumbers and sea horses or traditional use for sea Holothuria scabra were also purely for export purposes. cucumbers and encounter spotted in Rameswaram. This These animals are
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